| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
52.35 |
1.0515 |
0.2485 |
250 |
1 |
52.35 |
2010-10-02 |
| 2. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
51.81 |
0.9247 |
0.3683 |
253 |
1 |
51.81 |
2010-10-02 |
| 3. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
48.80 |
0.9567 |
0.2982 |
184 |
2 |
42.24 |
2011-03-17 |
| 4. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
48.38 |
0.9260 |
0.2865 |
243 |
1 |
48.38 |
2010-10-02 |
| 5. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
47.62 |
0.9500 |
0.2353 |
362 |
1 |
47.62 |
2010-10-02 |
| 6. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
47.61 |
1.0403 |
0.1824 |
275 |
2 |
43.53 |
2010-10-02 |
| 7. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
47.41 |
0.9805 |
0.2019 |
292 |
1 |
47.41 |
2010-10-02 |
| 8. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
47.39 |
1.1114 |
0.0632 |
247 |
3 |
44.91 |
2011-03-23 |
| 9. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
46.15 |
1.0396 |
0.0993 |
149 |
1 |
46.15 |
2010-10-02 |
| 10. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
45.75 |
0.9653 |
0.1791 |
394 |
1 |
45.75 |
2010-10-02 |
| 11. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
45.38 |
1.0132 |
0.1049 |
143 |
2 |
43.62 |
2011-03-21 |
| 12. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
45.23 |
1.0621 |
0.0803 |
263 |
1 |
45.23 |
2011-03-28 |
| 13. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
45.10 |
1.0029 |
0.1105 |
209 |
2 |
43.21 |
2011-03-21 |
| 14. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
45.09 |
0.9790 |
0.1811 |
311 |
1 |
45.09 |
2010-10-02 |
| 15. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
45.07 |
0.9275 |
0.1882 |
211 |
2 |
38.75 |
2010-10-04 |
| 16. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
44.97 |
0.9281 |
0.1935 |
273 |
1 |
44.97 |
2011-03-22 |
| 17. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
44.91 |
1.0218 |
0.0903 |
268 |
1 |
44.91 |
2010-10-02 |
| 18. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
44.37 |
0.9710 |
0.1239 |
173 |
2 |
43.17 |
2011-03-23 |
| 19. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
44.25 |
1.0483 |
0.0471 |
227 |
1 |
44.25 |
2011-03-24 |
| 20. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
44.04 |
0.9109 |
0.1848 |
401 |
1 |
44.04 |
2010-10-02 |
| 21. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
43.95 |
0.9670 |
0.1660 |
307 |
1 |
43.95 |
2010-10-02 |
| 22. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
43.80 |
1.0012 |
0.0892 |
260 |
2 |
43.29 |
2010-10-02 |
| 23. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
43.68 |
0.8971 |
0.1923 |
266 |
3 |
42.50 |
2011-03-28 |
| 24. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
43.61 |
1.0795 |
0.0334 |
226 |
2 |
41.96 |
2011-03-17 |
| 25. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
43.58 |
1.0574 |
0.0521 |
205 |
1 |
43.58 |
2011-03-21 |
| 26. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
43.58 |
0.9068 |
0.1778 |
269 |
1 |
43.58 |
2011-03-21 |
| 27. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
43.53 |
0.8787 |
0.2063 |
202 |
1 |
43.53 |
2010-10-02 |
| 28. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
43.32 |
0.9820 |
0.0959 |
267 |
2 |
41.40 |
2011-03-30 |
| 29. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
43.28 |
0.9986 |
0.0706 |
162 |
1 |
43.28 |
2010-10-06 |
| 30. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
43.26 |
0.8773 |
0.1998 |
205 |
1 |
43.26 |
2011-03-24 |
| 31. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
43.20 |
0.8821 |
0.1895 |
176 |
1 |
43.20 |
2010-10-02 |
| 32. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
43.13 |
1.1215 |
-0.0272 |
200 |
1 |
43.13 |
2011-03-30 |
| 33. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
42.95 |
0.9202 |
0.1449 |
254 |
2 |
40.52 |
2011-03-21 |
| 34. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
42.63 |
0.9772 |
0.0770 |
217 |
1 |
42.63 |
2011-03-21 |
| 35. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
42.54 |
0.9986 |
0.0575 |
283 |
1 |
42.54 |
2011-03-18 |
| 36. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
42.40 |
0.8810 |
0.1718 |
282 |
2 |
41.94 |
2011-03-28 |
| 37. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
42.17 |
0.9028 |
0.1416 |
111 |
1 |
42.17 |
2011-03-18 |
| 38. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
41.94 |
0.9884 |
0.0563 |
262 |
1 |
41.94 |
2011-03-23 |
| 39. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
41.92 |
0.9239 |
0.1226 |
193 |
1 |
41.92 |
2011-03-21 |
| 40. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
41.90 |
0.9852 |
0.0545 |
264 |
1 |
41.90 |
2011-03-22 |
| 41. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
41.85 |
0.8867 |
0.1566 |
241 |
1 |
41.85 |
2010-10-02 |
| 42. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
41.61 |
1.0412 |
-0.0097 |
225 |
1 |
41.61 |
2011-03-23 |
| 43. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
41.49 |
0.9857 |
0.0424 |
293 |
2 |
40.17 |
2011-03-28 |
| 44. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
41.47 |
1.0863 |
-0.0229 |
210 |
2 |
41.26 |
2011-03-21 |
| 45. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
41.46 |
0.8975 |
0.1314 |
268 |
1 |
41.46 |
2011-03-21 |
| 46. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
41.24 |
1.0343 |
0.0259 |
242 |
1 |
41.24 |
2010-10-06 |
| 47. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
41.23 |
1.0063 |
0.0167 |
371 |
2 |
38.91 |
2011-03-21 |
| 48. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
41.22 |
0.9844 |
0.0427 |
293 |
1 |
41.22 |
2011-03-22 |
| 49. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
41.21 |
1.0417 |
-0.0221 |
253 |
2 |
41.18 |
2011-03-18 |
| 50. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
41.20 |
0.8725 |
0.1514 |
163 |
1 |
41.20 |
2011-03-18 |
| 51. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
41.08 |
0.8906 |
0.1325 |
238 |
1 |
41.08 |
2011-03-18 |
| 52. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
40.95 |
0.9941 |
0.0190 |
217 |
1 |
40.95 |
2010-10-02 |
| 53. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
40.90 |
0.9289 |
0.0831 |
204 |
1 |
40.90 |
2010-10-02 |
| 54. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
40.90 |
0.9786 |
0.0305 |
193 |
1 |
40.90 |
2010-10-06 |
| 55. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
40.78 |
0.8941 |
0.1192 |
216 |
2 |
39.78 |
2011-03-18 |
| 56. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
40.54 |
0.9910 |
0.0161 |
295 |
1 |
40.54 |
2011-03-23 |
| 57. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
40.43 |
0.9904 |
0.0527 |
203 |
1 |
40.43 |
2011-03-21 |
| 58. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
40.40 |
1.0389 |
-0.0348 |
340 |
1 |
40.40 |
2010-10-05 |
| 59. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
40.12 |
0.9221 |
0.0711 |
244 |
1 |
40.12 |
2010-10-06 |
| 60. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
40.08 |
1.0528 |
-0.0641 |
201 |
1 |
40.08 |
2011-03-21 |
| 61. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
40.06 |
0.9855 |
0.0410 |
258 |
1 |
40.06 |
2011-03-23 |
| 62. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
40.03 |
0.9310 |
0.0575 |
188 |
1 |
40.03 |
2011-03-18 |
| 63. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
39.92 |
0.8826 |
0.1085 |
296 |
2 |
37.02 |
2011-03-27 |
| 64. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
39.72 |
1.0292 |
-0.0458 |
262 |
2 |
39.51 |
2011-03-27 |
| 65. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
39.66 |
0.9286 |
0.0535 |
194 |
1 |
39.66 |
2011-03-21 |
| 66. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
39.64 |
0.8793 |
0.1049 |
157 |
3 |
38.56 |
2011-03-27 |
| 67. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
39.57 |
1.0257 |
-0.0384 |
401 |
1 |
39.57 |
2011-03-18 |
| 68. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
39.53 |
1.0463 |
-0.0710 |
182 |
1 |
39.53 |
2010-10-01 |
| 69. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
39.52 |
0.8614 |
0.1159 |
172 |
1 |
39.52 |
2011-03-17 |
| 70. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
39.50 |
0.9776 |
0.0017 |
308 |
1 |
39.50 |
2011-03-24 |
| 71. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
39.13 |
1.0068 |
-0.0337 |
358 |
1 |
39.13 |
2011-03-18 |
| 72. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
39.09 |
0.8723 |
0.0926 |
185 |
1 |
39.09 |
2011-03-28 |
| 73. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
38.97 |
0.9063 |
0.0675 |
239 |
1 |
38.97 |
2011-03-18 |
| 74. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
38.87 |
1.0124 |
-0.0515 |
204 |
2 |
36.75 |
2011-03-24 |
| 75. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
38.86 |
1.0117 |
-0.0038 |
297 |
2 |
37.38 |
2011-03-23 |
| 76. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
38.85 |
0.9991 |
-0.0358 |
225 |
1 |
38.85 |
2010-10-14 |
| 77. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
38.84 |
0.8841 |
0.0851 |
194 |
1 |
38.84 |
2011-03-21 |
| 78. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
38.77 |
0.8884 |
0.0730 |
135 |
1 |
38.77 |
2011-03-18 |
| 79. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
38.65 |
1.0419 |
-0.0841 |
261 |
1 |
38.65 |
2010-10-01 |
| 80. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
38.62 |
0.9504 |
0.0012 |
263 |
1 |
38.62 |
2011-03-21 |
| 81. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
38.53 |
0.8996 |
0.0497 |
192 |
1 |
38.53 |
2011-03-23 |
| 82. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
38.45 |
0.9795 |
-0.0267 |
308 |
2 |
32.67 |
2011-03-21 |
| 83. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
38.35 |
1.1162 |
-0.1250 |
189 |
1 |
38.35 |
2010-10-01 |
| 84. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
38.22 |
1.0613 |
-0.1134 |
266 |
1 |
38.22 |
2011-03-18 |
| 85. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
38.04 |
0.9964 |
-0.0538 |
203 |
1 |
38.04 |
2011-03-17 |
| 86. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
38.02 |
0.9226 |
0.0232 |
177 |
1 |
38.02 |
2011-03-27 |
| 87. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
37.93 |
0.9045 |
0.0355 |
235 |
1 |
37.93 |
2010-10-08 |
| 88. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
37.77 |
0.9936 |
-0.0582 |
311 |
2 |
35.83 |
2011-03-29 |
| 89. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
37.69 |
1.0183 |
-0.0902 |
191 |
1 |
37.69 |
2011-03-21 |
| 90. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
37.67 |
0.9726 |
-0.0458 |
154 |
1 |
37.67 |
2011-03-18 |
| 91. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
37.65 |
0.9633 |
-0.0284 |
304 |
1 |
37.65 |
2010-10-06 |
| 92. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
37.53 |
0.9697 |
-0.0398 |
249 |
1 |
37.53 |
2011-03-21 |
| 93. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
37.44 |
1.0384 |
-0.1206 |
183 |
1 |
37.44 |
2011-03-18 |
| 94. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
37.41 |
0.9485 |
-0.0202 |
236 |
1 |
37.41 |
2011-03-21 |
| 95. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
37.35 |
0.9905 |
-0.0340 |
337 |
1 |
37.35 |
2010-10-04 |
| 96. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
37.28 |
0.8961 |
0.0239 |
189 |
1 |
37.28 |
2010-10-05 |
| 97. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
37.15 |
1.0214 |
-0.1030 |
269 |
1 |
37.15 |
2010-10-08 |
| 98. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
37.02 |
0.9430 |
-0.0233 |
297 |
1 |
37.02 |
2011-03-18 |
| 99. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
37.01 |
0.9673 |
-0.0114 |
232 |
1 |
37.01 |
2011-03-21 |
| 100. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
36.92 |
0.9865 |
-0.0711 |
276 |
2 |
36.79 |
2010-11-01 |
| 101. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
36.91 |
0.9216 |
0.0314 |
255 |
1 |
36.91 |
2011-03-21 |
| 102. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
36.79 |
0.9196 |
-0.0068 |
148 |
1 |
36.79 |
2011-03-29 |
| 103. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
36.71 |
0.8809 |
0.0260 |
127 |
1 |
36.71 |
2010-10-04 |
| 104. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
36.58 |
1.0487 |
-0.1479 |
231 |
1 |
36.58 |
2011-03-17 |
| 105. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
36.51 |
0.8918 |
0.0106 |
100 |
1 |
36.51 |
2011-03-18 |
| 106. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
36.35 |
0.8852 |
0.0169 |
201 |
1 |
36.35 |
2011-03-28 |
| 107. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
36.07 |
0.9365 |
-0.0421 |
248 |
1 |
36.07 |
2010-10-01 |
| 108. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
35.91 |
0.9665 |
-0.0282 |
326 |
1 |
35.91 |
2011-03-18 |
| 109. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
35.74 |
0.9128 |
0.0134 |
369 |
1 |
35.74 |
2011-03-23 |
| 110. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
35.66 |
1.0725 |
-0.1640 |
233 |
1 |
35.66 |
2010-11-02 |
| 111. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
35.66 |
0.9649 |
-0.0833 |
193 |
1 |
35.66 |
2011-03-21 |
| 112. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
35.56 |
0.8077 |
0.0706 |
167 |
1 |
35.56 |
2011-03-23 |
| 113. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
35.50 |
0.9916 |
-0.0703 |
282 |
1 |
35.50 |
2011-03-17 |
| 114. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
35.44 |
0.8353 |
0.0494 |
283 |
1 |
35.44 |
2010-10-05 |
| 115. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
35.36 |
0.9342 |
-0.0555 |
434 |
1 |
35.36 |
2010-10-02 |
| 116. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
35.33 |
1.0038 |
-0.0991 |
237 |
1 |
35.33 |
2011-03-21 |
| 117. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
35.18 |
1.0077 |
-0.0958 |
250 |
1 |
35.18 |
2011-03-17 |
| 118. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
35.18 |
1.0138 |
-0.1436 |
231 |
2 |
35.16 |
2011-03-27 |
| 119. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
35.14 |
1.0083 |
-0.0946 |
273 |
1 |
35.14 |
2011-03-17 |
| 120. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
35.10 |
0.7988 |
0.0785 |
219 |
1 |
35.10 |
2010-10-04 |
| 121. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
34.94 |
1.0109 |
-0.1455 |
276 |
1 |
34.94 |
2011-03-18 |
| 122. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
34.86 |
0.9899 |
-0.1320 |
163 |
1 |
34.86 |
2011-03-18 |
| 123. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
34.30 |
0.8878 |
-0.0395 |
346 |
1 |
34.30 |
2010-10-02 |
| 124. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
34.15 |
0.8791 |
-0.0352 |
190 |
1 |
34.15 |
2011-03-18 |
| 125. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
33.94 |
0.9841 |
-0.1408 |
334 |
1 |
33.94 |
2011-03-17 |
| 126. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
33.77 |
0.9540 |
-0.1206 |
285 |
1 |
33.77 |
2011-03-18 |
| 127. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
33.60 |
0.8553 |
-0.0294 |
174 |
1 |
33.60 |
2011-03-23 |
| 128. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
33.25 |
0.9072 |
-0.0867 |
237 |
1 |
33.25 |
2011-03-17 |
| 129. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
33.20 |
0.9468 |
-0.1264 |
276 |
1 |
33.20 |
2010-10-05 |
| 130. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
31.55 |
0.9251 |
-0.1406 |
177 |
1 |
31.55 |
2011-03-21 |
| 131. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
31.06 |
0.8162 |
-0.0439 |
149 |
1 |
31.06 |
2011-03-21 |
| 132. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
30.23 |
0.7877 |
-0.0368 |
142 |
1 |
30.23 |
2011-03-21 |
| 133. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
28.74 |
1.0095 |
-0.3017 |
316 |
1 |
28.74 |
2011-03-24 |